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A Victorian six-piece tea and coffee service comprising:-
plain baluster tea kettle stand and lamp; coffee pot; teapot; hot water jug; two-handled sugar basin and cream jug each of plain baluster form on mask and scroll feet with Neptune mask and eagle head spouts, and cast finials formed as thistle heads and foliage, engraved with a crest, by John S. Hunt, 1845/8, the coffee pot and sugar basin by Mortimer and Hunt 1842 and a later kettle extinguisher, height of kettle 17½in. (44.5cm), (212oz) (7)
plain baluster tea kettle stand and lamp; coffee pot; teapot; hot water jug; two-handled sugar basin and cream jug each of plain baluster form on mask and scroll feet with Neptune mask and eagle head spouts, and cast finials formed as thistle heads and foliage, engraved with a crest, by John S. Hunt, 1845/8, the coffee pot and sugar basin by Mortimer and Hunt 1842 and a later kettle extinguisher, height of kettle 17½in. (44.5cm), (212oz) (7)
Post lot text
The crest is that of Astley
